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Bravery is being unafraid of something other people are afraid of. Courage is being afraid, but strong enough to do it anyway.”
That the world beyond the edges of her eyelids can and will be a dangerous place. But that she can hide from it for whole seconds at a time when she closes her eyes.
“I’ve always felt like, when I look at the stars, I am reminded that I am never alone,”
“Because people never fall in love with who they should. This whole world is full of stories of people falling in love with exactly who they weren’t supposed to.”
She was overwhelmed with love for him. Love in the sense that she trusted him, and saw all the good in his heart, and cared about him and wanted only good things to ever happen to him. Love in the sense that she would always be on his side, even if he was wrong, in the sense that he was one of the people on this Earth she believed in. And in that moment, the swelling in her heart was unbearable. Absolutely unbearable.
Once she’d loved someone long enough, she’d understand that anything is possible, that she was capable of worse and greater acts than she knew.
It is like trying to describe the color blue to someone who has never seen it. And then you come along and it’s like you are describing the color blue to me and I feel such…relief. I’d have followed you anywhere just for that.”
But to love Frances was to be always saying goodbye to the girl Frances used to be and falling in love again with the girl Frances was becoming.
“Choices like this are dictated by what is best for the mission, not the individual.
“You can’t miss something you never had.”
Do you understand that I don’t care how big or small this world is, that you are the center of mine? Do you understand that, to someone, you are everything that matters on this entire planet?”
Every day, you can wake up and go to bed knowing there is someone whose heart is bursting, barely able to contain how much they love you.
Because I do not know how to live my life without you. Because I don’t even recognize the person I was before I loved you.
Just one person of five billion, on a small planet orbiting a small star, in a humble galaxy, one of billions of galaxies.
